Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are a special type of the wireless network in which communication through other intermediate vehicles on the road. Due to the high mobility of vehicles, the design of an efficient routing protocol is one of the key issues, which has been considered a challenging problem to deal with such dynamic network in VANETs. The greedy perimeter stateless routing (GPSR) routing protocol uses the simple greedy forwarding based only on the position information which may fail to find a neighbor closer to the destination than itself. In this paper, we propose a movement direction algorithm under GPSR. It comprehensively takes into account the velocity vector information and underlying link expiration time to recover a local maximum. The simulation outcomes in varying scenarios show that the proposed algorithm enhances the packet delivery and reduces the end-to-end delay, compared to the existing geographic routing algorithms.